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Danh ngôn của Mario Botta (Sứ mệnh: 6)

The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.
Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.